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Paolo De Stefani, Human Rights Centre, University of Padova
Paolo De Stefani is researcher and aggregate professor on international law at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Padova. After the degree in Law at the Padova University in 1989, he was awarded the human rights specialisation diploma at the School on Institutions and techniques of human rights protection of Padua University. He conducted research at the same University’s human rights centre. He has lectured human rights international law in the mentioned School and the Faculty of Political Sciences at Padua University, the European Master’s degree on human rights and democratisation, and in several undergraduate and postgraduate courses. He has been consultant and adviser on human rights implementation policies for the Regional Government of Veneto and the Regional ombudsperson for children’s rights, and other public and private institutions. He has authored and edited publications (on human rights, international criminal law, children’s rights, national institutions for human rights). From the A.Y. 2007-08 he is “national director” for Italy of the European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (Venice). He is member of the Scientific Committee of the E. Zancan Foundation on social research in Padova, and journalist.
Koen De Feyter, University of Antwerp, Faculty of Law, Belgium
Koen de Feyter is Professor of International Law at the University of Antwerp, where he also acts as the spokesperson of the Research Group on Law and Development. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the global Law and Development Research network (LDRn) He was previously attached to the Human Rights Centre of the University of Maastricht, the Institute of Development Policy and Management of the University of Antwerp, and served as the Academic Coordinator of the European Master in Human Rights and Democratisation (Venice, Italy). He is a former Chair of Amnesty International Belgium(Flanders) and an internationally recognized authority on human rights and development law.
The main focus of Professor De Feyter's research has been in the areas of law and development, human rights and intercultural socio-legal studies.
Among his recent publications: Critical Indigenous Rights Studies (Routledge, 2018), The right to water and sanitation for the urban poor in Delhi (University of Antwerp 2017), The right to education of rural-urban migrant households in Chongqing, China (University of Antwerp 2016), On the local relevance of human rights (Routledge, 2016), The right to development: a treaty and its discontents (Asser Press, 2016), Differentiation between developing and developed countries in international law (Intersentia, 2015), The common interest in international law: implications for human rights (Routledge, 2015).
Olga Breskaya, University of Padova, Italy
Olga Breskaya is currently a Ph.D student in the Human rights, Society, and Multi-level Governance programme at the University of Padova. Previously, she worked at the Department of Cultural and Religious History of the Brest State University (2000-2011) and at the Department of Sociological and Political Sciences of the European Humanities University (2010-2016). Her research field includes religious communities in urban space, religious identity and citizenship, and religion and human rights. Her current research project is about religious freedom in Italy.
Among her recent publications: Human rights and religion: A sociological perspective. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 57(3) with Giuseppe Giordan and James T. Richardson (2018); Divided by religion, united by gender: A socio–religious interpretation of the “Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.” Sociologia 1 with Giuseppe Giordan (2018); Sociologizing religious freedom: Comparative study of attitudes among young people in Belarus and Lithuania Religioni e Società 87(1) with Milda Ališauskienė (2017).
Sara Tonini, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Sara Tonini is a post-doctoral researcher at the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) of the University of Cape Town. Previously, she worked as Junior researcher at the Institute for the Impact Evaluation of Public Policies in Trento (2013-2014), as Policy Design and Evaluation Research in Developing Countries Fellow, within the Marie Curie Fellowship Programme, University of Cape Town (2016-2017). She was Visiting Researcher for the Institute for Study of Labour, in Bonn (2015-2016) and for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, in London (2016). she also worked as Development Economics Consultant for the Embassy of Italy in Nairobi (2011-2012). She is currently working on the impact of diversity on the labour market outcomes in developing countries, and on the effect of education debt on students' performance and wellbeing.
Among her recent publications: Overconfident people are more exposed to “black swan” events: a case study of avalanche risk (Empirical economics, Journal of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, 2018); Inequality of opportunity in the Transition Region (EBRD Transition Report 2016-17); The chips are down: The influence of family on children' trust formation (IZA Discussion Paper No. 9999, 2016).
Gerd Oberleitner, UNESCO Chair Human Rights and Human Security, University of Graz
Gerd Oberleitner is Professor of International Law and UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Human Security at the Faculty of Law, University of Graz, Austria; Head of the Institute of International Law and International Relations of the University of Graz; and Director of the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy at the University of Graz. He served as Legal Adviser in the Human Rights Department of the Austrian Foreign Ministry and was Lecturer in Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Visiting Fellow at the LSE’s Centre for the Study of Human Rights, Visiting Scholar at the European Inter-University Centre Venice and the Université du Quebéc à Montréal and Visiting Professor at the Universities of Prishtina, Ljubljana and Rutgers University. He teaches in the Global Campus of Regional Human Rights Master Programmes. Publications include Global Human Rights Institutions: between Remedy and Ritual (Polity 2007), Human Rights in Armed Conflict: Law, Practice, Policy (Cambridge University Press 2015), (as co-editor) Blurring Boundaries: Human Security and Forced Migration (Brill 2017) and (as editor) Human Rights Institutions and Tribunals – Legacy and Promise (Springer, forthcoming).
Lisa Heschl, European Training Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, University of Graz, Austria
Lisa Heschl is Post-Doc research and teaching fellow at the European Training and Research Centre on Human Rights and Democracy at the University of Graz (UNI-ETC). She received her Ph.D. in law from the University of Graz, holds a European Master Degree in Human Rights and Democratization (E.MA) and has been a Marie Curie visiting research fellow at the University of Deusto, Bilbao. She is a teaching fellow at the University of Padua, Italy and the University of Oldenburg, Germany. Her research interest include the European migration and asylum policy and legislation , the extraterritorial application of international and European refugee and human rights law and its relation to European border policies. She is engaged in various research and educational projects dealing with human rights, migration and asylum (e.g. Erasmus+ PROMIG project; H2020 LEGIT) and has published in the field of migration and human rights (e.g. Heschl, Protecting the Rights fof Refugees beyond European Borders, Intersentia, 2018 or Salomon/Heschl/Benedek/Oberleitner, Blurring Boundaries – Human Security and Migration, Brill, 2017).
Peter Johansson, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg
Peter Johansson is a senior lecturer and Director of the Human Rights Section at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is on the programme board of the Erasmus Mundus Master Programme in Human Rights Policy and Practice and is chairing the Steering Committee coordinating the social science faculty's engagement in the Swedish Forum for Human Rights. He is a member of the International Editorial Board of Peace Human Rights Governance, published by the Human Rights Centre and the UNESCO Chair in Human Rights at University of Padua. Johansson defended his thesis in Peace and Development Research on Sweden's Sami policy 1986-2005 in 2008. His general research focus is on the implementation of human rights and how different actors use the human rights discourse as a tool for change. Research topics are indigenous peoples' and minority rights, privacy, whistleblowing, and the right to health. Recent publications are Value Conflicts and Non-Compliance: Attitudes to Whistleblowing in Swedish Organisations (w. Berndtsson J. and Karlsson M., Information and Computer Security 2018); eHealth strategies and platforms - the issue of health equity in Sweden (w. Hellberg S., Health Policy and Technology 2017); Collaboration or renunciation? The role of traditional medicine in mental health care in Rwanda and Eastern Cape Province, South Africa (w. Schierenbeck et al., Global Public Health, 2016); Indigenous Self-determination in the Nordic Countries – The Sami, and the Inuit of Greenland in Short, D. & Lennox, C. (eds.), Handbook of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights (Routledge 2015); Principles on Collision Course? State Sovereignty Meets Peoples’ Right of Self-Determination in the Case of Kosovo (w. Berndtsson J., Cambridge Review of International Affairs 2015).
Lilija Alijeva, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK
Lilija Alijeva is a research assistant for the Human Rights Consortium and Tom Lantos Institute on the UN Forum on Minority Issues research project. She is also a research student at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her research focuses on human rights norms and their implementation. Previously, she worked as a Russian-speaking NGO management intern at the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre, and she assisted EHRAC’s legal team with research on human rights issues in the Caucasus. She also worked as a research assistant at the Social Policy Research Centre, Middlesex University.
She is the author of: Left Behind? A Critical Study of the Russian-speaking Minority Rights to Citizenship and Language in the Post-Soviet Baltic States. Lessons from Nationalising Language Policies (International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, 2017).
Martin Crook, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, UK
He's currently finishing a PhD programme with the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London.
Mr. Crook has worked as a researcher and editor of the opinion piece series for the policy institute Commonwealth Advisory Bureau . He also volunteered as an assistant researcher for the Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) in late 2013 - early 2014.
He's a research associate at the school of Advanced Study, University of London and he published a number of papers on the the political economy of genocide and ecocide and now he's working on the editorial board for The International Journal of Human Rights.
His research interests include human rights and the environment, the political economy of of genocide, ecocide and the political economy of development.
Among his recent publications: With Short, D, and South, N, Ecocide, genocide, capitalism and colonialism: Consequences for indigenous peoples and glocal ecosystems environments (Theoretical Criminology, 2018); With Short, D, Marx, Lemkin and the Genocide-Ecocide Nexus (The International Journal of Human Rights, 2014); The Mau Mau Genocide: A Neo-Lemkinian Analysis (Journal of Human Rights in the Commonwealth 2013); ‘At Rio+20, the green economy won’t save the planet. But green democracy will. (Commonwealth Advisory Bureau Opinion Piece Series 2011).
Damien Short, , School of Advanced Studies, University of London, UK
Damien Short is co-director of the Human Rights Consortium (HRC) and a Reader in Human Rights at the School of Advanced Study. He has spent his entire professional career working in the field of human rights, both as a scholar and human rights advocate. He has researched and published extensively in the areas of indigenous peoples’ rights, genocide studies, reconciliation projects and environmental human rights. He is currently researching the human rights impacts of extreme energy processes (e.g. Tar Sands and Fracking - see https://extremeenergy.org) . Dr Short is a regular academic contributor to the United Nations’ ‘Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ and an expert member of the United Nations’ Harmony with Nature initiative, and an academic consultant for the ‘Ethical Trade Task Force’ of the Soil Association. He is Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Human Rights (Taylor and Francis) and convenor of the British Sociological Association’s Sociology of Rights Study Group and an active member of the International Network of Genocide Scholars. Dr Short has also worked with a variety of NGOs including Amnesty International, War on Want, Survival International, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs; and with a range of campaign groups including Eradicating Ecocide, Biofuelwatch, Climate Justice Collective and the UK Tar Sands Network. He currently advises local anti-fracking groups in the UK and county councils on the human rights implications of unconventional (extreme) energy extraction processes such as fracking. Dr Short, holds a PhD and an MA from the University of Essex.
14/11/2018
University of Padova
Human Rights Centre
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University of Padova
Human Rights Centre
"Antonio Papisca"
Complesso Universitario
Via Beato Pellegrino, 28
35137 Padova
Tel 049 827 1813 / 1817
E-mail
centro.dirittiumani@unipd.it
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